Heel-beading machine



(No Model.)

J. M. GROGAN. HEEL BBADING MACHINE.

No. 660,136. Patented May 12, 1896.

ANDREW BYGRAHAM PMUTUUrHQwASrHNGmm D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH M. GROGAN, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL-BEADING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 560,136, datedJ/I ay 12, 1896. Application filed September 23, 1895. Serial No. 563,384. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH M. GROGAN, of Brocktomin the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heel-Beading Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for beading, burnishing, and otherwise ornamenting the heels of boots and shoes, and relates more especially to that class wherein the rand-guide and the beader are mounted rigidly upon a shaft, so as to turn therewith, and the milled sleeve or heel-rest is mounted loosely on said shaft, so as to turn freely thereon. Heretofore in this class of machines the rand-guide and the beader have been formed integrally, and my invention is designed to overcome the difficulties and objections incident to the use of such a machine. I have found by practical experience that the tool soon becomes useless by reason of the beader becoming worn, and hence both the rand-guide and the beader must be discarded, whereas if the rand-guide and the beader be separated and detachably mounted upon the supporting shaft the beader can be reversed, so that fresh edges may be used in forming the bead, or a new one inserted in place, when the edges of the old one become worn. Again, as the rands in different kinds and sizes of shoes and even in the same sizes of shoes vary greatly, it is necessary to employ rand-guides of various diameters to be used with the same beader or burnisher, or vice versa.

Hence my invention consists in the combination, with a supporting driving-shaft and a milled sleeve or heel-rest loose thereon, of a rand-guide and a beader separate from each other, but both secured rigidly to the supporting-shaft.

It also consists of a beader formed separately from the rand-guide and having a series of teeth with flattened ends and rounded edges, which act upon the heel and form a smooth polished bead.

Reference is to be had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same letters designating the same parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

Of the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved machine, a portion of the rand-guide being broken away to show a portion of the beader. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is avertical central section of the machine. Figs. 4 and 5 show difierent forms of beaders which may be employed in connection with the tool.

In carrying out my invention I employ a driving-shaft a with a reduced portion a on the end thereof, said reduced portion having also a boss a separated therefrom by a shoulder a Upon the reduced portion a, I place a loosely-revoluble sleeve or heel-rest I), having at its upper edge a milled shoulder 19'. Upon the boss a I mount a beader provided with teeth 0 and a rand-guide cl. The shoulder (0* serves to support the disks 0 and d a small distance from the milled edge b.

6 indicates a screw having a large head 6, which serves to rigidly secure the rand-guide and the beader in place on the shaft. The screw is received by a threaded aperture in the end of the boss and the reduced portion of the shaft. The beader consists of a disk of a suitable thickness, formed, as abovesaid, separately from the rand-guide and having a number of teeth 0, separated by V-shaped notches, as shown in Fig. 5, or by semicircular notches, as shown in Fig. 4. The edges of the teeth are rounded, as illustrated, and as the shaft upon which the beader is mounted is rotated they strike against the heel and form a highly-polished bead. Each tooth has two edges, so that after the edges on one side of the teeth become worn the beader may be reversed on the shaft, so that the other edges will be brought into use.

The heel is pressed against the heel-rest or milled sleeve, with the rand-guide in the randcrease. The rapid rotation of the shaft causes the edges of the teeth on the beader to strike rapidly against the heel and a smooth and polished bead is soon formed. The milled portion of the rest forms an ornamental line of indentations around the heel as the latter is subjected to the action of the beader. In this way the heel is treated so as to present a neat and tasteful appearance.

In the consideration of the foregoing it will be understood that the rand-guide burnishes or polishes the projecting upwardly-facing outer edge of the heel or sole, the beader proper burnishing the upper edge of the heel or sole which faces outward, these two devices making a smooth finish and serving to set or form the edge of the heel and sole, and it is upon these two devices that myimprovements have been particularly wrought.

As before stated, in the practice of the art heretofore the rand-guide and beader have always been made in one part or piece, so that as soon as the beader became worn to any appreciable extent the line of meeting of the surface of the rand-guide which burnished the upper outer edge of the heel or sole and the beader proper became upset or rounded, so that a perfect and sharply-finished edge would not be set. IVith my invention a substantially perfect angle is always preserved between the rand-guide and beader so long as the beader is useful at all, and hence a perfect edge is always set or formed.

It is true that in the use of my improvements the beader will in time become worn, so that the line of junction between the randguide and beader will be appreciably rounded; but then, as before stated, by reversing the sides of the header with relation to the randguide and knurl or serrated part b the beading may be effected with the result of setting a sharp, perfect edge on the sole or heel until the beader is worn out. In this way substantially twice the service is obtained from my beader that is secured from beaders of the old form, and, as has been said, perfect Work is always obtained. Again, in the old structures, where the rand-guide and beader proper are compounded or formed in one piece, as

soon as the beader becomes at all worn, or

worn, say, to the extent of three-thousandths of an inch, the knurl or milled flange will bear off the header, so that it will have no satisfactory burnishing effect, and hence it becomes necessary to renew both the rand-guide and burnisher. In my invention when the beader becomes too much worn it can alone be renewed without renewing the rand guide, which may still be fully serviceable.

Having thus explained the nature of the invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, though without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, it is declared that what is claimed is l. A heel-beading machine comprising in its construction the driving-shaft, the revoluble sleeve having a milled edge mounted loosely thereon, and the separate rand-guide and separately reversible beader secured upon the shaft to turn therewith.

2. A heel-beading machine comprising in its construction, the driving-shaft, the revoluble sleeve having a milled edge mounted loosely thereon, and the separate rand-guide and separate reversible beader secured upon the shaft to turn therewith, the beader being constructed as a disk having teeth on its periphery, separated by notches.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 12th day of September, A. D. 1895.

JOSEPH M. GROGAN.

Witnesses:

MARCUS 13. MAY, A. W. CRossLEY. 

